Yesterday's Weather

Sunday evening -
my parking spot at work

All day today the wind has been gusting between 25 and 55 mph, blowing powdery, sandy snow. I ventured out to the laundromat, which was closed, and the cold made my fingers ache in a three-block walk. The trip wasn't a complete waste, though. Along the way, I saw what I thought was a huge snowball, about three feet in diameter, skidding and tumbling across an icy street like a tumbleweed. I caught up to it in the Pioneer Center parking lot, and it turned out to be a white garbage bag filled with styrofoam packaging. It was blown around in circles for a while until I got ahead of it, caught it and returned it to the dumpster it came from.

Little birds were chirping frantically in the alley this morning.
I left some breadcrumbs outside, and they beat a path to my door.

Monday I walked to the grocery store, with a rest stop at a coffee shop.  I thought the WTA buses wouldn't be running because of the MLK Day holiday, but I was wrong.  Still, I didn't feel like going far from Ferndale.

The Main St. bridge over the Nooksack gets icy and slick.

The sidewalk isn't much better for biking - too much lumpy packed snow.

A view of the river from the bridge.

Major streets are kept clear, but the ploughs pile dirty, crusty, lumpy snow on the bike lanes and sidewalks.